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that IS a solution, but it requires another piece of hardware. I believe there must be a solution that could provide the same via virtual network driver(like VirtualBox).

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You can install a hosts file on your computer blacklisting many of the domains in the PI hole system, although if you use the largest blacklists you'll probably have performance issues. You can also install a local DNS server like dnsmasq and set that up to block websites.

There are also external DNS providers that provide blacklisting similar to PI Hole. (Although then you are trusting the DNS provider not to track you.)

If you wanted to go that route (and don't care about the small performance hit or are willing to dual boot to play games)...

Try QubesOS and pihole together:

- https://www.qubes-os.org/

- https://blog.tufarolo.eu/how-to-configure-pihole-in-qubesos-...

It should let you do exactly that: local pihole to monitor and block traffic from all VMs.

(I haven't tried it. I went the route of a separate pihole enabled network behind my cable modem as I have other devices I'd like to block traffic on too.)

You can install Pihole on whatever device you want. The difficulty is having it be up 24/7 since it going down will break your access to the internet, so a separate device is usually simpler.

True, but the hardware is cheap and extremely simple to setup. The entire process took me maybe one hour and cost probably $40 if you include the SD card and Ethernet cable too.

LittleSnitch?

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